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"As a writer, he is painstaking, careful, scrutinizing. As a student, he is methodical, discriminating, industrious. As a preacher, he is forcible, logical, convincing. As a worker, he is indefatigable, energetic, pushing. As a financier, he is successful and skillful. As a Christian, he is sympathetic, consistent and spiritually-minded. God helping, we predict for him a career of usefulness to the church, his fellow men and the cause of Christ." -Rev. J. Wofford White Rev. Irving E. Lowery as born a slave in 1850 in Sumter County, South Carolina. After the Civil War, Lowery studied and became a Methodist Episcopal minister serving in Greenville and Aiken, South Carolina. In Life on the Old Plantation in Ante-Bellum Days, Lowery provides an eyewitness account of slave life on the plantation, describing the work, religious, funerary, courting, and recreation practices of the slaves, as well as the social relations between slaves and slave owners. He describes plantation life pleasantly and nostalgically. Lowery also discusses social and racial relations after Emancipation as well as his views on the improving state of racial relations in the early 20th century. Chapters: Brief Sketches of the Author I. The Old Plantation II. The Proprietor of the Old Plantation III. Granny, the Cook, on the Old Plantation IV. A Possum Hunt on the Old Plantation V. A Wedding on the Old Plantation VI. Christmas on the Old Plantation VII. Sunday on the Old Plantation VIII. A Funeral on the Old Plantation IX. A Log-Rolling on the Old Plantation X. A Corn-Shucking on thp Old Plantation XI. Little Jimmie " the Mail Boy" on the Old Plantation XII. A Love Story on the Old Plantation XIII. The Breaking Up of the Old Plantation Part Two Appendix Signs of a Better Day for the Negro in the South By I. E. Lowery Chapters: I. Introduction II. White Patrons of Negro Business Enteprises III. White Contributors Toward the Building of Negro Churches IV. White Contributors Toward the Building of Negro Churches V. White Contributors Toward the Building of Negro Schools VI. Current Incidents of Negro Industrial Achievements VII. Friendly Expressions of Southern White People for the Negro VIII. Friendly Expressions of Southern White People for the Negro IX. The White People's Care of the Old Black Mammies